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Monthly Archives: July 2006

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Carnival of the Mobilists #38 at SmartMobs.com

This week's Carnival of the Mobilist is at SmartMobs… Judy has done a wonderful job compiling this week's carnival, which is getting better and better each week. Also this week, the Khosla Ventures winners of last month's Carnival were announced – congrats to…

Computer Animated Music

I've to admit, I love computer animations… I admire the folks that have the talent to create virtual worlds that transcend reality. And I love computer animations with music… If you too, checkout Animusic — it is pretty awesome… STARSHIP GROOVE POGO STICKS…

Shawn on Social Networking

A very good piece by Shawn Conahan of Intercasting Corp., makers of Rabble – see “Social Networking” is a Construct (part 1 of 2). I share many of Shawn's concepts and definitions. Related to this topic see Elements of Social Networks Software. ceo

Google Code Project Hosting – We want your code too!

Google has introduced Google Code Project Hosting… their open source project hosting offering that competes with SourceForge. Google… Google… they know our searching patterns and web content (Google search), our email (Gmail) and IM (Google Talk) conversations, our blogs preferences (Google Reader) and…

The Mobile Internationalization API for J2ME, MSA, and MicroI18N to the rescue

One of “new” JSRs in the block is the Mobile Internationalization API (JSR 238). This specification defines localization resource file formats and their organization, and of course, the API itself to manage the resources. With the Mobile Services Architecture specification (JSR 248), the…

W3C on the future of Device Description Repository

From W3C: Participants in the International Workshop on the Implementation of a Device Description Repository have published their report. … the workshop participants debated the expected nature of the Device Description Repository (DDR). All agreed it should be simple. The API and a…

Mobile JUnit 1.0 for Java ME CLDC phones

Just read via Wendong's Smart Phone Weblog that Sony Ericsson has released Mobile JUnit 1.0 for Java ME CLDC phones. ceo

Call for MMS Applications (Cingular)

If you have an MMS application that you want to put it front of Cingular's marketing folks, do the following: In 2-3 sentences, write why your application is unique and how a customer will benefit from it. What multimedia components are included in…

37 Years Ago Today….

The date was July 20, 1969. The mission was Apollo 11. A day like today, 37 years ago, Neil Armstrong walked on the moon… Forgotten by many, the trio of Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin, together with thousands of other people…

Is coding in Java ME really a pain? Part II

The act of coding vs. the act of deploying… Is coding deploying in Java ME really a pain? Previously I wrote Is coding in Java ME really a pain? where I bring up a couple of points on that topic. But I've been…